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15-letter words containing wo

  • wolf-rayet star — a very hot (35,000–100,000 K) and luminous star in the early stages of evolution, with broad emission lines in its spectrum.
  • wolverine state — Michigan (used as a nickname).
  • women's shelter — woman's refuge
  • women's studies — a program of studies concentrating on the role of women in history, learning, and culture.
  • wonder-stricken — struck or affected with wonder.
  • wondermongering — the promising of miracles
  • wood turpentine — turpentine obtained from pine trees.
  • wood woollyfoot — a common yellowish basidiomycetous fungus, Collybia peronata, of broad-leaved woodland, having a hairy tuft at the foot of the stem
  • worcester china — porcelain articles made in Worcester (England) from 1751 in a factory that became, in 1862, the Royal Worcester Porcelain Company
  • worcester sauce — a commercially prepared piquant sauce, made from a basis of soy sauce, with vinegar, spices, etc
  • word processing — writing, editing, and production of documents, as letters, reports, and books, through the use of a computer program or a complete computer system designed to facilitate rapid and efficient manipulation of text. Abbreviation: WP.
  • work experience — temporary job placement
  • work oneself up — become overwrought
  • work/do wonders — If you say that a person or thing works wonders or does wonders, you mean that they have a very good effect on something.
  • worker director — a worker elected to the governing board of a business concern to represent the interests of the employees in decision making
  • working capital — the amount of capital needed to carry on a business.
  • working drawing — an accurately measured and detailed drawing of a structure, machine, etc., or of any part of one, used as a guide to workers in constructing it.
  • working holiday — trip combining vacation with job experience
  • working storage — the amount of memory used to temporarily store results or other data while a program is running.
  • world-wide wait — (humour)   A pejorative expansion of WWW reflecting on the slowness of some network connections and sites.
  • worm's eye view — a perspective seen from below or from a low or inferior position: The new man will get a worm's-eye view of the corporate structure.
  • worm's-eye view — a perspective seen from below or from a low or inferior position: The new man will get a worm's-eye view of the corporate structure.
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